500Hz refresh rate monitors are the fastest the industry currently produces. There are very few on the market, but the offer is going to be encouraged next year and models such as the Alienware AW2524H that Dell will exhibit at CES 2023 are already being advanced.
The monitor uses a panel with technology FastIPS, which in addition to a very high refresh rate, will offer better display quality than typical TN panels. Its screen has a diagonal of 25 inches and its native resolution is FHD.
The Alienware AW2524H will have a native clock rate of 480 Hz over the Display Port interface, but will reach 500 Hz with a little overclocking. It will also have RGB backlighting and an ergonomic base with support for height and rotation. Obviously it will be exclusively for competitive games and its price will be quite high.
500 Hz monitors, all for gaming
It must be said that specific gaming monitors are not the ones that offer the largest screen size. Neither is image quality, native resolution or support for color palettes. But they must be the best in other sections such as the update frequency (also known as refresh rate).
Let’s remember that a high-end graphics card can generate a high frame rate per second (FPS) and that they should translate to a display screen without image fragmentation, juddering, flickering, input lag and other display defects that detract from the experience.
The monitors have maximum refresh rates that start at 30 Hz and in the case of those dedicated to games, they offer ranges that we can place between 120 Hz and 360 Hz. Of course you can play at any and also this refresh rate is variable, but the maximum peak is important to support that a screen can display images at the same rate as the number of frames it receives at any time.
Raising this characteristic has its counterparts. On the one hand, the native resolution is usually lowered since it is not possible to offer 360 – 500 Hz in higher resolutions. On the other hand, high-end graphics cards are needed whose price is also very high.
